IN CONVERSATION
To the Artist Hugo McCloud, Even Dead Flowers Are Worth Painting
June 3, 2024
The artist talked to curator Aurora James about grief, beauty, and the arduous process behind his new paintings, now on view at Sean Kelly, New York.
IN CONVERSATION
Artist Nina Chanel Abney Plays 20 Questions With Tierra Whack
May 31, 2024
After opening her exhibition “LIE DOGGO” at Jack Shainman The School, the artist and rapper got together to imagine swapping lives, Freaky Friday-style.
SMOKE BREAK
“I Had an iPod on My Pussy”: An Eight-Minute Cig With Artist Jacolby Satterwhite
May 24, 2024
In this week’s installment of Smoke Break, we smoked American Spirits with the 3-D artist and provocateur outside of The Kitchen’s Spring 2024 Gala.
OPENING
“What Does It Mean to Have Survived?”: Lyle Ashton Harris, in Conversation With Ryan McGinley
May 20, 2024
Before opening his sprawling mid-career retrospective at Queens Museum, the 59-year-old artist talked art, activism, and acupuncture with his friend Ryan McGinley.
RORSCHACH TEST
Bruce LaBruce on Gen Z, GHB, and Double Penetration
May 16, 2024
In this week’s Rorschach Test, the artist and pornographer sounds off on Pride Month, steam rooms, campus protests, and his “deep sexual fetish for rough trade.”
OPENING
Lucky DeBellevue Paints the Sexy, Tortured Worlds of Rainer Werner Fassbinder
May 13, 2024
“I didn’t want to shy away from sexuality,” says the downtown painter, who painted stills from a number of the German director’s films for his new solo exhibition.
PANEL
For Artist Diedrick Brackens, Weaving Is An Act of Religion
May 10, 2024
“Ritual in some sense is about repetition, and repetition is a holy act,” says the 35-year old artist about what drives his textile practice.
CLICK
“You Ghosted Andy Warhol”: Magdalena Wosinska, in Conversation With Christopher Makos
May 10, 2024
The two photographers got on Zoom to talk about celebrity egos, making it in Tinseltown, and Wosinska’s new book “Fulfill the Dream,” a document of the 90s skate scene.
OPENING
Artist Nikita Gale Is Watching You From the Nosebleeds
May 9, 2024
The LA-based artist’s new exhibition at Petzel Gallery imagines a stadium’s nosebleed seats as “not just a position and a space, but a theoretical, philosophical position.”
SMOKE BREAK
“Explore Page Realness”: A Nine-Minute Cig With Artist Kiernan Francis
May 9, 2024
For our inaugural installation of Smoke Break, we caught up with artist and filmmaker Kiernan Francis at his raucous LES opening.
VENICE BIENNALE
For Jonathan Lyndon Chase, A Masterpiece Emerges From the Rubble
May 8, 2024
“I’m very interested in this idea of what our bodies carry,” says the 35-year-old artist. “If we take something like paper and crumple it, it always kind of holds a memory.”
IN CONVERSATION
“My Career Is Down the Drain”: Bjarne Melgaard, in Conversation With Nicole Eisenman
May 2, 2024
“I’ve been portrayed as the biggest drugged out, money-hungry whore ever to exist in Scandinavian art,” says Melgaard, whose works are currently on view in “Barney Does it All” at Faurschou Gallery.
IN CONVERSATION
Sedrick Chisom Shows Kara Walker His Apocalyptic Vision
May 1, 2024
Ahead of his debut solo show, the painter got together with friend and mentor Kara Walker to discuss everything from dystopia to utopia and Lacan to Freud.
ART
Michaël Borremans Reveals His True Colors to Luca Guadagnino
April 30, 2024
At his studio in Ghent and with some help from his celebrated filmmaker friend, the enigmatic Belgian confronts himself.
IN STUDIO
Artist Lynn Hershman Leeson on Cyborgs, Filler, and Film-Snobs
April 26, 2024
“When I started doing all of this work, it was rejected and not paid attention to,” says the 83-year-old artist, whose show “Anti-Aging” is currently on view at Bridget Donahue.
SALONE
Lucas Oliver Mill of @CollectorWalls Paints Milan Red at Salone
April 22, 2024
In Milan for Salone del Mobile, we talked design dreams and interiors icks with the man behind the beloved Instagram account @CollectorWalls.
PRESENCE
Curator Legacy Russell Unpacks the Meaning Behind Black Meme
April 19, 2024
“One of the problems with Black representation is speed, and we deserve slowness.”
IN CONVERSATION
Olivia Erlanger Invites Aubrey Plaza Inside Her Industrial Futurama
April 18, 2024
Before the opening of her debut solo show at the Contemporary Arts Museum, the artist talked to Aubrey Plaza about haunted appliances and pill-popping housewives.
Venice Biennale
“I’m Happy to Be an Object”: Miles Greenberg, in Conversation With Klaus Biesenbach
April 17, 2024
“I feel I’m quite happy to be an object,” the artist told Klaus Biesenbach ahead of his ambitious performance at Palazzo Malipiero. “I think that’s always the goal, in a way.”
SCULPTOR
“Turn This Fucking Butt Plug Off”: Meet Rubber Sculptor Rich Aybar
April 16, 2024
The designer calls up his collaborator, Raul Lopez, to talk metrosexuality and “chic horniness.”